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Legionella

Legionnaires’ outbreak and explosion costs car parts firm £1.6m

Hazardous substances

Sellafield charged over ‘employee contamination’

Road safety

Go-kart firm fined after boy’s crash injuries

News continued

Management systems

South Devon Railway fined after boy almost fell through train’s missing floor

A heritage railway has been fined after a child narrowly avoided falling through a hole in a toilet floor and on to the track.

Work at height

*UPDATE* Fall from station canopy costs BAM £900k

BAM Nuttall has been fined £900,000 after a painter fell through a fragile railway station ceiling into a passenger waiting room and sustained severe ligament damage. Subcontractor McNealy Brown has also been convicted.

Road safety

Network Rail’s risk underestimate allowed signaller’s level crossing strike

Network Rail has been found guilty of a safety breach after a signaller was struck by a car as he tried to close a level crossing gate.

Features

Accident reduction

Leader interview

Heather Bryant, Balfour Beatty

Leadership

Conference report

IOSH Middle East Conference 2018

Leadership

Conference report

ICOH 2018 Congress

Features continued

Older workers

Case study

EPC-UK: committed to fitness

The commercial explosives firm’s wellbeing initiatives aim to support its ageing and hard-to-reach workers both mentally and physically.

Ergonomics

Exoskeletons

Power suits

Organisations may soon be giving workers ‘outside’ assistance to manage biomechanical hazards.

Assurance

Leader interview

Kevin Myers, IALI

The former HSE deputy chief executive now represents labour inspectors around the world and has robust views on OSH overprovision.

Columns

Andrew Sharman CFIOSH

key lessons from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People

Louise Hosking

why representing diversity at work could lead to sound, risk-based choices

Products and services

Introducing simulation training from specialist access and rescue training provider, REAX

Introducing advanced simulation from specialist access and rescue training provider, REAX

Lone workers

New Look for Lone Workers!

Personal protective equipment

JSP hands over large donation to the Lighthouse Club to support the Construction Industry Helpline

Products and services continued

Personal protective equipment

JSP is ahead of the Reg!

JSP Ltd is pleased to announce that they have on day one of the enforcement of the regulation the vast majority of their product range certified to the new PPE Regulation, 2016/425. This is a year ahead of the cut-off date of 21st April 2019!

Performance/results

Water treatment specialists, ProEconomy, are awarded a royal warrant

ProEconomy have been granted a Royal Warrant by Appointment of Water Treatment Services to her Majesty The Queen.

Culture

Fujitsu's transformational approach to global safety

Fujitsu and EEF have devised an innovative workforce-wide cultural programme that embraces the ‘Fujitsu Way’. With the most stringent laws globally as its baseline and ISO 45001 as the framework, the organisation will be united, legally compliant and establish global expectations, consistent standards, processes and procedures.